Secret Movement for War with Japs
Government rushed 2000 tons of supplies to Hawaii aboard the Sierra 2 including 500 tons of rice and flour with canned goods. Atlantic fleet ships at Philadelphia Navy Yard are being stripped and prepared for instant action. Old vessels like the Minneapolis are overhauled and the Alabama readied for sea. 242 recruits from Ft. Slocum moved toward San Francisco en route to Honolulu on forty eight hours notice.
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Portola Festival selects prettiest maiden of Golden State
Miss Emma De Velasco wins the Portola Festival beauty contest with a $100 prize. Her photograph becomes the festival poster girl for the October 22 25 San Francisco event drawing visitors from across California. The piece also notes wartime troop movements and a rapid nine car train assembled in New York to transport 250 soldiers to San Francisco.
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Strike Persists as Talks Continue Mediator May Aid
The strike remains active while conferences hint at possible peace. A special train stands by to transport him to Cincinnati if his presence is requested, signaling readiness for mediation.
Washington paper fumes at car maker attitude in strike note
Special dispatch reports Governor Cox urging peace talks to end the Cincinnati Traction Company street car strike. He offered mediation and even a special train, while officials in Cincinnati kept in touch as negotiations continued. The governor warned he could call out militia if violence recurred.
Kin of Victims Wail At Fatal Mine's Mouth
In Belle Valley Ohio fifteen miners perished at the Imperial Mine as rescuers pulled bodies from the mouth of the shaft. The dead include Slav miners Michael Perris 45 Clem Sbnay 26 Mike Yacho 26 Peter Tulsky 45 John Gedzie 28 and Henry Brandt 52 American gasman. Rescue work continued into the morning as families gathered near the scene.
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Parade of Striking Children Unpermitted in Cincinnati
A quiet Cincinnati day saw fifty young workers aged 5 to 14 march from Court and Vine to Workman's Hall led by a billy goat pulling a wagon bearing "This is a Union Buck." Banners proclaimed the strike message as they paraded through the streets, declaring the strikers’ parade superior to any circus.
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More Coast Defense Guns Considered by Garrison
Secretary of War Garrison argues seacoast cities cannot rely on fortifications alone for safety in war. He urges a mobile army to defend coasts, notes weaknesses of land defense and emphasizes combining coast defenses with mobile troops to protect harbors and cities from land and sea threats.
Martinsburg Egg Miracle Creates Gobbler Hatch
In Martinsburg West Virginia Special report Edward Haysset an incubating turkey egg with a cracked domestic egg to seal the shell. The improvised patch held and a young gobbler hatched yesterday proving an unusual incubation experiment by Hays and his daughter.
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Unkissed bachelor turned Springfield policeman
General Emmett Newton famed as Missouri's unkissed bachelor became a policeman in Springfield after a theater offered a $2 prize for proof of kissing his mustache. Mayor Culler commissioned him, no pay, to arrest any kissee, with the deadline expiring today.
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Four Cornell students die in Cayuga Lake canoe tragedy
Four sophomore Cornell students Miss Mary C Mollett Miss Martha McCormick Brainard Bailey and Reinhart Zimmer set out from Willow Point for a paddle to Ithaca. The overturned canoe was found eight miles north with paddles and cushions nearby. Searchers scouted the lake as expert boatmen dragged for the missing pairs. A south wind and heavy waves were noted as likely factors in the disaster.
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Waters of Pacific Let Into Big Ditch Panama
The waters of the Pacific were released into the Panama Canal after a blast using 32 750 pounds of dynamite blew the dike south of the Miraflores locks. The explosion finished a large excavated section and was felt in Panama City like a small quake. At a 12 000 American representation meeting Cristobal was chosen as the Fourth of July celebration site.
Washington Watches Strike Developments
In Washington on May 18 the Cincinnati street car strike draws national attention. Secretary of Labor Wilson says it has not been officially raised and doubts if it will. AFL secretary Frank Morrison says no federation action is planned. The situation has reduced Cincinnati congressmen mail to nearly nothing as the strike nears settlement.
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Councilman moves to curb immodest women's dress
Pittsburg May 18 A special report notes Councilman W A Hoeveler will propose a council resolution to ban pantaloon skirts slashed skirts and tight draped gowns for women The measure would set legal modesty standards and may impose fines or imprisonment for violators A commission with three councilmen and modistes would determine acceptable fashion standards and denounce current gowns as immodest
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Traction and Union Meet Face to Face Over Strike
The Commercial Tribune reports a full arbitration talk between street railway interests and labor leaders. Federated Association chair Walter Knight presided as they discussed all issues last night. Knight plans to seek a court delay to allow further settlement talks tomorrow morning. Governor Cox hopes for a settlement and resumed service.
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